For-profits waiting as English regulator mulls register refusals Office for Students has sent ‘minded to refuse’ letters to 20 providers John Morgan 5月 15日
The university where half the professoriate ‘has never published’ Nepotism and the isolation of war have left Kosovo’s oldest university battling poor research standards, but transparency campaigners hope this is changing David Matthews 5月 15日
Mauro Ferrari to lead European Research Council from 2020 Nanomedicine pioneer will replace Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Rachael Pells 5月 14日
Going Global 2019: Netherlands ‘most supportive’ of internationalisation British Council research warns that Brexit ‘may affect future international engagement’ of the UK Ellie Bothwell 5月 14日
Universities told to refund half of fees over strike failings Office of the Independent Adjudicator says some English and Welsh providers did not do enough for students when lecturers walked out over pensions Nick Mayo 5月 14日
UK progress on research spending goal ‘26 years behind schedule’ CBI warns country will not spend 2.4 per cent of gross domestic product on research and development until 2053 Rachael Pells 5月 14日
Winchester union members back strike action over job cuts University says it hopes to avoid compulsory redundancies Nick Mayo 5月 13日
USS pension offer doesn’t go far enough, say UCU candidates General secretary hopefuls want further concessions from pension scheme Nick Mayo 5月 13日
The economic value of going to university is not declining Falling UK graduate wages reflect not too many students but a flexible labour market’s post-crash adjustment, argues David Willetts David Willetts 5月 13日
Universities ‘uniquely’ prone to workplace abuse, union warns New reports uncover widespread gossip, harassment, verbal abuse and ‘scientific sabotage’ in Dutch universities – with women particularly affected David Matthews 5月 13日
New models ‘reshaping how historians write’ Fragmentary, first-person accounts are challenging the staid traditions of the monograph, event hears Matthew Reisz 5月 11日
UK universities cut carbon emissions despite using more energy Calls made for campuses to do more to help tackle climate change Nick Mayo 5月 10日
